A Soviet dramatist and screenwriter primarily remembered for his work with Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. He wrote `The Suicide', in 1928.
Erdman, Nicolay Robertovich, 1900-1970
Erdman, Nicolai, 1902-1970
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Downstage Theatre :[Ephemera and posters for productions. 1981]
Date: 1981
From: Downstage Theatre :[Ephemera and posters for productions. 1964-2013]
Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1981
Description: Includes posters for: "Amadeus", by Peter Shaffer. Downstage Theatre, from August 28th [1981] (2 copies) "Big and little"; scenes by Botho Strauss. Downstage Theatre, from June 19 [1981] (2 copies) "The biograph girl"; a new musical at Downstage Theatre. By Warner Brown and David Heneker, from December 4th [1981] (2 copies) "Brecht songs"; Stephen McCurdy, Stephanie Arlidge. Downstage, Sunday June 28th at 8 pm [1981] Downstage Theatre announces its Autumn premier season ("Hay fever", "The suicide", "Fifty-fifty"). Booking form "Fifty-fifty", by Roger Hall. From May 8 [1981] (2 copies) "Fifty-fifty", by Roger Hall. Return season by popular demand, 6-28 November [1981] (2 copies) "Hay fever", by Noel Coward. Downstage Theatre, from 20 February [1981] (2 copies) "Hitting town", by Stephen Poliakoff. 29 May - 13 June, Fri-Sat night only [1981] (1 copy in colour; plus three different black and white versions) "The suicide", by Nikolai Erdman; translated by Peter Tegel. Downstage Theatre from April 3rd [1981] (Poster designed by P Hollis, showing a group of figures, one resembling Toulouse-Lautrec's Aristide Bruant)(2 copies) "The wind and the rain", a comedy by Merton Hodge. Downstage Theatre, from July 24 [1981] (2 copies) Quantity: 12 posters. Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm.
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Photographs of productions
Date: April 1981-May 1981, November 1981
From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions
Reference: PAColl-7704-15
Description: Photographs of the Downstage Theatre of productions 'Fifty Fifty' (May 1981), 'The Rose' (November 1981), and 'The Suicide' (April 1981). Arrangement: Transparences at 35mm-43971 to 43974 Quantity: 39 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s). 10 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets. 4 colour original transparency/ies strips with 9 images.
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Production of The Suicide by Nicolai Erdman
Date: 1981
From: Mann, Phillip, 1942- :Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6791-118
Description: Working papers relating to Mann's production of `The Suicide' by Nicolai Erdman for Downstage Theatre, Wellington, including notes and prompt copy Quantity: 1 folder(s).